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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1880
Page
6
A German paper from Stratford reports a woman’s suicide in Coshocton Ohio then a fatal shooting after a dispute involving Massachusetts legislator Mr Loud. Anecdotes praise St Jacobs Oil for rheumatic relief and other remedies while a Miss Chamberlain incident is noted.
Readers are urged to try Hop Bitters for women noting relief from chills fever indigestion liver trouble headaches back and kidney pain and general lassitude. A Maine farmer and his wife are described in a tale of discovery and cure, with Kidney Wort claimed to cure kidney disease in a short time and to prevent incurable illness.
Tomah Wisconsin November 20 1877 The writer claims his wife suffered asthma until Warner Whit Wine of Par Syrup brought relief and cured her He notes the medicine costs fifty dollars per bottle and urges purchase through W W Jones as advertised by William H Ferris chair of Wilton Monroe Co Wisconsin 50 cents per bottle
A deacon recalls a Hartford conversation about Brother Blank fearfully questioned as a pastor not suited to country work. He cites a neighbor’s fowl trouble and a game cock as the wrong response to garden pests. The tale senior George D. Prentice’s wit is quoted in defense of humane conduct.
Jonathan Brown Bright kept a record of 3,216 whist games through July 19, 1879, winning 1,608 and losing 1,608. The piece weaves in moralizing passages about health, consumption treatment, and various anecdotal notices, including ad-like items for Dr Pierce products, a starvation death, and other sensational notes.
An advertisement touts a remedy named New Discovery for coughs colds asthma bronchitis and throat or lung ailments. It claims extensive cures with over one million bottles used and offers trial bottles for ten cents and regular bottles for one dollar from Jerome Allen Greencastle Indiana.
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